States have the responsibility to create rules and conditions for growth and development, and to channel the benefits to all citizens by providing education and making people able to participate in the economies, and in decision-making.

The beauty of science and the nature of scientific revelations constiture part of the modern theologian's perspective and toolbox.

Joseph Silk

Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself.

Helen Rowland

The aim of art is not to represent the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance

Aristotle

All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn't need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children.

Paul Auster

I think patriotism is like charity -- it begins at home.

Henry James

My dad is a lawyer and my mom is an artist. So growing up was exactly what it sounds like - strict household but a lot of creativity. They are so psyched that I get to make music for a living. My parents rule.

Ty Segall

It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.

Victor Hugo

I could have made a fortune in cheeseburgers, but I finally chose politics.

Francois Hollande

You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's strength.

Charlotte Bronte

I met Elton John at an Interview dinner, and we just sort of became friends. He's got such a wicked sense of humor.

Moby

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

William James

Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!

Taslima Nasrin